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A 1
Ford wins;
jobs veto
is upheld
WASHINGTON ( UPI) - President
Ford scored another victory on Capitol
Hill Thursday as Congress upheld his
veto of a 98.2 billion public works biU.
Democrats said me Mil would create
more man 600,000 Jobs, but Ford called
it an election- yea- r " hoax."
Tbe Senate upheld me veto by a 63- 3- 5
vote, three short of the two- thir- ds
majority required by each house for an
override. Earlier, the House voted to
override the veto by a 3W- 0- 8 vote.
Congress now has upheld 38 of Ford's
46 vetoes.
Supporters had said the new jobs
would come mainly through -- public
works projects around the country,
among them building municipal offices
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The bill Included $ 1-- 5 billion in budget
aid designed to keep state and local
governments from having to lay off em-ployes
and reduce services.
Republicans said it actually would
create fewer than 150,000 jobs, at a cost
of $ 25,000 per job. Also, Republicans
said most of the effect would come in
future years when it might be un-necessary.
House Republican leader John J.
Rhodes of Arizona said the measure
would " rekindle the fires of inflation"
at a time when he said the ad--
( See HOUSE, Page 13)
Insight
Avon ladies
never had it
this rough
Candidates run,
volunteers walk,
in race for votes
By Roger Simon
Chicago Son- Tim- es
MANCHESTER, N. H. - It began
well enough. The light waf" fading,
leaving the snow- lade- n clouds milky
white above me dark stand of trees that
ran along the street
I parked near what seemed to be a
pteasant- sotindin- g intersection, the cor-ner
of Cypres and HoOy streets. The
houses could have been taken from the
front of Christmas cards and set down
here.
They were small, wooden homes with
gabled roofs and smoking chimneys
that filled the air with the rich smell of
burning logs.
What I was doing is called canvassing
going door to door asking voters what
they think. Almost every candidate run-ning
in Tuesday's primary has volun-teers
who do it It is the backbone, cor-nerstone
and absolute rock upon which
any serious political campaign is built
And those of you who mink only war
is hell never have tried it In two hours I
wished I were dead. In three hours I
thought I was. When the last daylight
vanishes and the pitch- blackne- ss
comes, you find yourself stumbling
along gutters, slipping into snowbanks
and dragging your feet through cozy
deposits of New Hampshire muck.
Doors get slammed in your face, dogs
threaten you, and many persons just
refuse to come to the door.
The hundreds of kids who have driven
and hitchhiked to this state to work for
their favorite candidate imagine them-selves
in their down- flUe- d ski jackets,
standing next to their man and helping
him with policy statements. At the very
worst, they expect to stuff envelopes.
That Is not the very worst canvassing
is. And that is what they end up doing.
But you do get to meet that most
( See NJH. VOTERS, Page 14)
I Coed wages
I money war
I with M. U.
By Diane Gutting
Missourian staff writer
University senior Barbara Nelson
says she keeps running into wails
bureaucratic walls.
The University says she is a Con-necticut
resident; the state of
Missouri says she is a resident of
Missouri; Connecticut says she
belongs to Missouri; and none of
them will help her pay the $ 3,930 the
University says she owes in back
out- of- sta- te tuition.
As Nelson relates it, her problems
did not begin until she applied for ad-mission
to the University's School of
Veterinary Medicine. On the ap-plication
she had to state her
parents' permanent address and the
University discovered she should
have been paying out- of- stat- e tuition
all along because her parents live in
Connecticut
Al Anderson, assistant director of
the Office of Public Information,
counters by saying Nelson is being
treated fairly. The University has
based its decision on clearly stated
rules available to all students.
But when Nelson applied for ad-mission
to the University in 1972 as
an undergraduate, her parents lived
in St. Louis and for 3 years she has
been paying in- sta- te tuition.
" I have no funds to pay that
amount of money," she said.
Following advice to get financial
aid if she could not pay the bill,
Nelson began to get a taste of the
red- tap- e and hassles that are part of
dealing with the bureaucracy.
Nelson said the financial aids of-fice
told her she was not eligible for
financial aid because her parents'
income is too high. The office
suggested she look into the " guaran-teed
loan" program in Connecticut
But after doing so, she was told she
must be a Connecticut resident to
apply for a loan, and according to
state records she is a Missouri
resident. A Columbia bank also
turned down her request for a loan.
" Right now, I don't know who to
turn to. I keep running into walls,"
-- she said.
Nelson had not questioned the
legitimacy of her status until
Tuesday when John Thompson,
assistant director of the operating
budget, told her the news. The
University did not recognize her as a
( See RESIDENCY, Page 14)
state nrr. T'. pici'., , cict7 "?' 3- -
HITT &. LOWRY ST.
COLUMBIA, MO. 65201
ST. 3- 1- 4- 74
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After the fire calmed somewhat, fire fighters were able to
stand inside the front doorway of the Ashland building. Cause
of the Thursday afternoon blaze has not been determined.
( Missourian photo by Greg Wood)
None hurt in Ashland
By Wade Park
ftiissoarlaa staff writer
ASHLAND A fire that destroyed
the Sentinel Wood Treating Co. Thurs-day
afternoon was visible m southern
Columbia and required 32 firemen with
six trucks to bring it under control.
The plant's main storage and office
building was reduced to a heap of
smouldering aluminum, with damage
estimated by plant manager Larry Old
at a minimum of $ 250,000.
" There were eight people inside the
budding when the fire started, and
nobody was injured," Old said.
A fairly new steel structure, the
building contained " all our offices and
most of our farm equipment," Old said.
The building was full of aluminum gut-ters,
siding and other farm accessories.
" The building was a complete loss,"
Old and acting assistant Ashland Fire
Chief Bill Nichols agreed. " I figure the
damage will cost between one- quart- er
and one- ha- lf million dollars," Old said.
" All we've been able to recover are
about half our records." He did not
know how much of the loss was covered
by insurance.
Cause of the fire was undetermined,
but employes said the blaze began near
the rest room. " There was a small ex-plosion,
and the fire started in the wall
between the rest room and the
secretary's office," Old said. " I almost
had the fire extinguished, but it began
to intensify."
Assistant Manager David Lewis said,
" I was waiting on a customer, and I
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As smoke billowed from the roof of the building, there was lit-tle
for anyone to do but stand and watch. Fire fighters from
the Boone County district aided Ashland crews in fighting the
blaze. ( Missourian photo by Jim Anderson)
saw smoke coming up through a heat
vent Somebody hollered ' fire', so I
called the fire department and ran. It
was so quick we just took off."
The Ashland Volunteer Fire Depart-ment
received Lewis' call at 3: 20 p. m.
Ten minutes later, two trucks " and 12
men arrived at the plant and im-mediately
called the Boone County Fire
Protection District for assistance, un-der
their mutual aid agreement. The
fire district dispatched four trucks and
about 20 men. About an hour later the
fire was under control.
Only the front face of the building and
a few metal supports were left stand-ing.
The steel siding had blistered
and buckled under the intense heat.
" We had a fire like this six or seven
years ago," Old said. " But this is three
times as bad. There's nothing left from
this one."
Some councilmen favor
review of city merit pay
By Ransdell Pierson
and Jay Johnson
Missourian staff writers
City employes may get bad news in
their 1977 paychecks if four councilmen
have their way.
First Ward Councilman Pat
Barnes, Fourth Ward Councilman Les
Proctor and Mayor Robert Pugh all
have agreed that the city's merit
system has caused employes to be over-paid
and underproductive. And Third
Ward Councilmen Phil Hanson says
some dty salaries are over competitive
with the private sector.
Their views could influence the
decisions the council will begin making
in May for next year's budget
Proctor said Thursday that if be has
his way, " The cost of living Increase as
we know it today will be eliminated for
city employes after a thorough revision
of the city's personnel regulations is
made."
Pugh says the city's present system
" makes it difficult for the boss to con-trol
the employes."
The first step in changing the
situation could take place when the
council begins considering next year's
budget
" In this year's budget process there
may be some fundamental changes in
thinking," Pugh said, " though the
changes will not be drastic but gradual
changes."
Protor said, " It looks like we've gone
over board in protecting the mediocre
unproductive employe. A study Mayor
Pugh and I are considering would
modify the living increases. Salary in-creases
would be decided by depart-ment
heads and supervisors."
However, MU& ell Bennett, business
manager for Pukc Service Employees
Local 45, says he opposes a merit
system in which department heads
determine who will receive salary in-creases.
" The council members might be
opening the gates for dty supervisors
to award personalities rather than bet-ter
workers."
But Proctor is not as concerned with
the merit system as he is with the cost
of living.
" We're getting locked into a cost of
living increase which is destroying
productivity and the city can't afford
cost of living increases each year be-cause
revenues won't be able to
handle them," Proctor said.
" We have to get away from giving
someone a 7 per cent increase merely
because the inflation rate is 7 per cent a
year. The worker should have to earn
( See PUGH, Page 14)

A 1
Ford wins;
jobs veto
is upheld
WASHINGTON ( UPI) - President
Ford scored another victory on Capitol
Hill Thursday as Congress upheld his
veto of a 98.2 billion public works biU.
Democrats said me Mil would create
more man 600,000 Jobs, but Ford called
it an election- yea- r " hoax."
Tbe Senate upheld me veto by a 63- 3- 5
vote, three short of the two- thir- ds
majority required by each house for an
override. Earlier, the House voted to
override the veto by a 3W- 0- 8 vote.
Congress now has upheld 38 of Ford's
46 vetoes.
Supporters had said the new jobs
would come mainly through -- public
works projects around the country,
among them building municipal offices
pnH ikWw? tnrfTfadlitteg.
The bill Included $ 1-- 5 billion in budget
aid designed to keep state and local
governments from having to lay off em-ployes
and reduce services.
Republicans said it actually would
create fewer than 150,000 jobs, at a cost
of $ 25,000 per job. Also, Republicans
said most of the effect would come in
future years when it might be un-necessary.
House Republican leader John J.
Rhodes of Arizona said the measure
would " rekindle the fires of inflation"
at a time when he said the ad--
( See HOUSE, Page 13)
Insight
Avon ladies
never had it
this rough
Candidates run,
volunteers walk,
in race for votes
By Roger Simon
Chicago Son- Tim- es
MANCHESTER, N. H. - It began
well enough. The light waf" fading,
leaving the snow- lade- n clouds milky
white above me dark stand of trees that
ran along the street
I parked near what seemed to be a
pteasant- sotindin- g intersection, the cor-ner
of Cypres and HoOy streets. The
houses could have been taken from the
front of Christmas cards and set down
here.
They were small, wooden homes with
gabled roofs and smoking chimneys
that filled the air with the rich smell of
burning logs.
What I was doing is called canvassing
going door to door asking voters what
they think. Almost every candidate run-ning
in Tuesday's primary has volun-teers
who do it It is the backbone, cor-nerstone
and absolute rock upon which
any serious political campaign is built
And those of you who mink only war
is hell never have tried it In two hours I
wished I were dead. In three hours I
thought I was. When the last daylight
vanishes and the pitch- blackne- ss
comes, you find yourself stumbling
along gutters, slipping into snowbanks
and dragging your feet through cozy
deposits of New Hampshire muck.
Doors get slammed in your face, dogs
threaten you, and many persons just
refuse to come to the door.
The hundreds of kids who have driven
and hitchhiked to this state to work for
their favorite candidate imagine them-selves
in their down- flUe- d ski jackets,
standing next to their man and helping
him with policy statements. At the very
worst, they expect to stuff envelopes.
That Is not the very worst canvassing
is. And that is what they end up doing.
But you do get to meet that most
( See NJH. VOTERS, Page 14)
I Coed wages
I money war
I with M. U.
By Diane Gutting
Missourian staff writer
University senior Barbara Nelson
says she keeps running into wails
bureaucratic walls.
The University says she is a Con-necticut
resident; the state of
Missouri says she is a resident of
Missouri; Connecticut says she
belongs to Missouri; and none of
them will help her pay the $ 3,930 the
University says she owes in back
out- of- sta- te tuition.
As Nelson relates it, her problems
did not begin until she applied for ad-mission
to the University's School of
Veterinary Medicine. On the ap-plication
she had to state her
parents' permanent address and the
University discovered she should
have been paying out- of- stat- e tuition
all along because her parents live in
Connecticut
Al Anderson, assistant director of
the Office of Public Information,
counters by saying Nelson is being
treated fairly. The University has
based its decision on clearly stated
rules available to all students.
But when Nelson applied for ad-mission
to the University in 1972 as
an undergraduate, her parents lived
in St. Louis and for 3 years she has
been paying in- sta- te tuition.
" I have no funds to pay that
amount of money," she said.
Following advice to get financial
aid if she could not pay the bill,
Nelson began to get a taste of the
red- tap- e and hassles that are part of
dealing with the bureaucracy.
Nelson said the financial aids of-fice
told her she was not eligible for
financial aid because her parents'
income is too high. The office
suggested she look into the " guaran-teed
loan" program in Connecticut
But after doing so, she was told she
must be a Connecticut resident to
apply for a loan, and according to
state records she is a Missouri
resident. A Columbia bank also
turned down her request for a loan.
" Right now, I don't know who to
turn to. I keep running into walls,"
-- she said.
Nelson had not questioned the
legitimacy of her status until
Tuesday when John Thompson,
assistant director of the operating
budget, told her the news. The
University did not recognize her as a
( See RESIDENCY, Page 14)
state nrr. T'. pici'., , cict7 "?' 3- -
HITT &. LOWRY ST.
COLUMBIA, MO. 65201
ST. 3- 1- 4- 74
68th Year No. 126 Good Morning! It's Friday, February 20, 1976 9 Sections 60 Pages - 15 Cents
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After the fire calmed somewhat, fire fighters were able to
stand inside the front doorway of the Ashland building. Cause
of the Thursday afternoon blaze has not been determined.
( Missourian photo by Greg Wood)
None hurt in Ashland
By Wade Park
ftiissoarlaa staff writer
ASHLAND A fire that destroyed
the Sentinel Wood Treating Co. Thurs-day
afternoon was visible m southern
Columbia and required 32 firemen with
six trucks to bring it under control.
The plant's main storage and office
building was reduced to a heap of
smouldering aluminum, with damage
estimated by plant manager Larry Old
at a minimum of $ 250,000.
" There were eight people inside the
budding when the fire started, and
nobody was injured," Old said.
A fairly new steel structure, the
building contained " all our offices and
most of our farm equipment," Old said.
The building was full of aluminum gut-ters,
siding and other farm accessories.
" The building was a complete loss,"
Old and acting assistant Ashland Fire
Chief Bill Nichols agreed. " I figure the
damage will cost between one- quart- er
and one- ha- lf million dollars," Old said.
" All we've been able to recover are
about half our records." He did not
know how much of the loss was covered
by insurance.
Cause of the fire was undetermined,
but employes said the blaze began near
the rest room. " There was a small ex-plosion,
and the fire started in the wall
between the rest room and the
secretary's office," Old said. " I almost
had the fire extinguished, but it began
to intensify."
Assistant Manager David Lewis said,
" I was waiting on a customer, and I
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As smoke billowed from the roof of the building, there was lit-tle
for anyone to do but stand and watch. Fire fighters from
the Boone County district aided Ashland crews in fighting the
blaze. ( Missourian photo by Jim Anderson)
saw smoke coming up through a heat
vent Somebody hollered ' fire', so I
called the fire department and ran. It
was so quick we just took off."
The Ashland Volunteer Fire Depart-ment
received Lewis' call at 3: 20 p. m.
Ten minutes later, two trucks " and 12
men arrived at the plant and im-mediately
called the Boone County Fire
Protection District for assistance, un-der
their mutual aid agreement. The
fire district dispatched four trucks and
about 20 men. About an hour later the
fire was under control.
Only the front face of the building and
a few metal supports were left stand-ing.
The steel siding had blistered
and buckled under the intense heat.
" We had a fire like this six or seven
years ago," Old said. " But this is three
times as bad. There's nothing left from
this one."
Some councilmen favor
review of city merit pay
By Ransdell Pierson
and Jay Johnson
Missourian staff writers
City employes may get bad news in
their 1977 paychecks if four councilmen
have their way.
First Ward Councilman Pat
Barnes, Fourth Ward Councilman Les
Proctor and Mayor Robert Pugh all
have agreed that the city's merit
system has caused employes to be over-paid
and underproductive. And Third
Ward Councilmen Phil Hanson says
some dty salaries are over competitive
with the private sector.
Their views could influence the
decisions the council will begin making
in May for next year's budget
Proctor said Thursday that if be has
his way, " The cost of living Increase as
we know it today will be eliminated for
city employes after a thorough revision
of the city's personnel regulations is
made."
Pugh says the city's present system
" makes it difficult for the boss to con-trol
the employes."
The first step in changing the
situation could take place when the
council begins considering next year's
budget
" In this year's budget process there
may be some fundamental changes in
thinking," Pugh said, " though the
changes will not be drastic but gradual
changes."
Protor said, " It looks like we've gone
over board in protecting the mediocre
unproductive employe. A study Mayor
Pugh and I are considering would
modify the living increases. Salary in-creases
would be decided by depart-ment
heads and supervisors."
However, MU& ell Bennett, business
manager for Pukc Service Employees
Local 45, says he opposes a merit
system in which department heads
determine who will receive salary in-creases.
" The council members might be
opening the gates for dty supervisors
to award personalities rather than bet-ter
workers."
But Proctor is not as concerned with
the merit system as he is with the cost
of living.
" We're getting locked into a cost of
living increase which is destroying
productivity and the city can't afford
cost of living increases each year be-cause
revenues won't be able to
handle them," Proctor said.
" We have to get away from giving
someone a 7 per cent increase merely
because the inflation rate is 7 per cent a
year. The worker should have to earn
( See PUGH, Page 14)